On
March 3rd, Arizona Senator Lori Klein was one vote shy of passing her
SB
1433 initiative which would have made Arizona the first in the nation
to protect its Tenth Amendment rights and place the state in a position
to void unconstitutional acts of the federal government currently bankrupting
all states.

Sixteen
Senate votes were needed to pass the measure on to the House and on
March 4th, sixteen senators voted YES to put SB 1433 back on the floor
for consideration vote on March 8th.

But
between March 3rd and March 8th, the leftist press came out of the woodwork
against the bill and through a string of false news reports, convinced
three YES votes to defect by Tuesdays vote.

Andrew
Shepherd at Daily
Wildcat was first to take aim at the bill, calling the constitutional
bill first introduced by none other than Constitution authors Thomas
Jefferson and James Madison, “unconstitutional.” According
to Shepherd – “the federal government hasn't done anything
to warrant nullification.”

So,
why did 26 state legislatures and governors join a law suit against
ObamaCare, and win in a Florida federal court? – “It’s
currently being worked out in federal court, not in state capitols”
– says Shepherd, as if he is totally unaware of the fact that
the Obama administration thumbed their nose at the Florida ruling that
took 80 pages to declare ObamaCare completely unconstitutional.

On
March 2nd, the left-wing Huffington
Post parroted Shepherds sentiments – falsely referring to
“nullification” as a form of secession, when in fact nullification
is a form of avoiding the need for secession by forcing the federal
government to live within the confines of Constitution, Jefferson and
Madison both agreed.

Steam
was building in the leftist press – On March 3rd, Alia Beard Rau
of Arizona
Central falsely reported that the Arizona had passed SB 1433 in
a 16-11 vote that day. In reality, the 16-11 vote was only to place
the initiative on the floor for reconsideration on March 8th.

By
the next day, TMPMuckraker
had also falsely reported the SB 1433 story, borrowing its unchecked
research from all the other “reporters” who had clearly
not done their homework.
TMPMuckraker couldn’t resist the opportunity to give its scholarly
opinion – “Nullification laws go against the language of
the Constitution” – said writer Jillian Rayfield.

It
was starting to sound like an echo chamber of leftist attacks, all of
them based on a false story that none in the string of so-called reporters
bothered to check before rushing to print. The leftists press was in
full swing and nobody cared whether or not they were reporting the truth.

By
the time Arizona Central printed a retraction of the original false
report on March 5th, dingbat Democrats were up in arms across the state,
especially Democrat dingbat Paula Aboud of Pima County, who was threatening
that Pima County would secede from the state of Arizona if 1433 passed.

But
what were they so upset about? Do Democrats not believe in state sovereignty
and Tenth Amendment rights? Do they really believe that the two men
most responsible for writing the US Constitution would also write nullification,
if it was truly “unconstitutional?”

Or
are they just scared to cross the tyrannical federal government and
really represent Arizona citizens. Are they on-board Obama’s torching
of the US Constitution and his blatant efforts to force every state
into one great big international socialist third world existence?

Then
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema helped perpetuate the “crazy” bundle
of lies spewing from her friends in the leftist press, in her Modern
Times interview, later retracted also, as writer John Guzzon had
also failed to do his journalism due diligence and Sinema didn’t
bother to correct him.

The
entire string of “news” reports were bogus from the start
and not one left-wing “reporter” stopped to check their
facts before going to print, even after retractions had been issued
on the original Arizona Central story.

But,
Sinema knew better… She knew the reports were false and decided
to grab her 15 seconds of fame and a chance to put her pretty picture
in print, all based upon reports she knew to be false. Her
dingbat Democrat friends from Pima County were so upset by what leftist
members of the legislature and press had falsely labeled “secession”
that they threated to, you got it, secede…

It
was a parade of fools and even the AP
and Business Week couldn’t resist the urge to join the chorus
of clowns. Still, with all that coverage, not a single leftist publication
managed to get the story right.

Worst
of all, none of them seem to think that states have Tenth Amendment
rights or state sovereignty, and that our Founding Fathers, who are
surely rolling over in their graves by now, formed a third world nation
run by federal Czars and unelected judges.

Just
to be “credible,” Modern Times dusted off and dragged out
a couple of obscure law professors from the local colleges to confirm
that the press is right, the US Constitution is just a crusty old document
that is no longer in force or effect.

Arizona
State University law professor Paul Bender, said – “SB 1433
is entirely invalid. State legislatures can disagree with federal law,
they can complain about federal law, but they cannot nullify the legal
effect of federal law. Only the courts can do that.” – Huh?
An unelected judge decides what rights a state does or does not have
under the Tenth Amendment? Isn’t that a bit like asking the fox
what the rules of the hen house should be?

Steven
Gonzales, professor at the Phoenix College of Law, said – “SB
1433 and legislation like it are relics of a past that should be forever
discredited.” Kind of like the US Constitution and Bill of Rights
I guess, huh professor?

I
can’t help but wonder what these esteemed law professor think
the Founders meant by - The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. -?

I
guess we have to ask a judge somewhere… which means, the states
have whatever rights we can get some judge to allow, according to the
law professors.

The
people need to understand that THIS is exactly how the press works.
There was NO truth in anything these people printed, and they DO NOT
care because they achieved their desired result. They whipped
the public into opposing their own rights!

At
the end of the day though, it was not nutty Democrats or their leftist
press that killed SB 1433 and ended any hope of states’ rights
in Arizona, it was nine Republicans in the Arizona Senate.

These
nine Republicans stood with nine senate Democrats, against twelve Republicans
with real backbone and a deep respect for the constitutional rights
of their state.

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Senator
Lori Klein had done all she could do and Senate President Pearce admonished
the body for lacking the backbone to protect the citizens of Arizona
and he was right. Senator Don Shooter put his political career on the
line to vote YES, even when he knew the bill was doomed, willing to
do the right thing no matter the cost.

Funny
how doing the right thing has always been considered radical. The Founding
Fathers were all considered radicals too though, so Shooter is keeping
good company, along with the other brave senators who voted YES on SB
1433, no matter the cost.

The
good news is – This vote makes it crystal clear which nine senate
Republicans need to be replaced in Arizona. Arizona conservative have
some work to do…

JB Williams
is a business man, a husband, a father, and a writer. A no nonsense
commentator on American politics, American history, and American philosophy.
He is published nationwide and in many countries around the world. He
is also a Founder of Freedom Force USA and a staunch conservative actively
engaged in returning the power to the right people in America.

The entire string
of “news” reports were bogus from the start and not one left-wing
“reporter” stopped to check their facts before going to print,
even after retractions had been issued on the original Arizona Central
story.